Transfer Learning for an Endangered Slavic Variety: Dependency Parsing in Pomak Across Contact-Shaped Dialects

ArXi:2603.28033v1 Announce Type: new This paper presents new resources and baselines for Dependency Parsing in Pomak, an endangered Eastern South Slavic language with substantial dialectal variation and no widely adopted standard. We focus on the variety spoken in Turkey (Uzunk\"opr\"u) and ask how well a dependency parser trained on the existing Pomak Universal Dependencies treebank, which was built primarily from the variety that is spoken in Greece, transfers across dialects. We run two experimental phases.